different between trout vs skirling

English

Etymology

From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trou?t, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek ??????? (tr?kt?s, “nibbler”), from ????? (tr?g?, “I gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh?- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on BBSes of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), though that sketch involved a halibut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /t???t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

trout (countable and uncountable, plural trout or trouts)

1. Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
2. (Britain, derogatory) An objectionable elderly woman.

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Translations

Verb

trout (third-person singular simple present trouts, present participle trouting, simple past and past participle trouted)

1. (Internet chat) To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.

Translations

Anagrams

• Routt, Tutor, tutor

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk??l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk?l??/

Verb

skirling

1. present participle of skirl

Noun

skirling (plural skirlings)

1. (Britain, dialect) A small trout or salmon.
2. (Northern England and Scotland) A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.
   • 1885, Juliana Horatia Ewing, The Story of a Short Life

     When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened.

References

• skirling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• "skirling" in On-line Medical Dictionary, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1997–2005.